Per AxbomFeb 3, 2023
More and more coming across "podcasts" that can only be listened to on a specific platform, not in my podcatcher (any app for listening to podcasts via RSS feeds).

If a podcast doesn't disclose its RSS feed, is it really a podcast, or just an audio show that happens to be published on a specific platform?

In my mind podcasting is about the listener experience and mode of consumption as much as the production experience. If I can't listen to it like I do 99% of all podcasts, then for all intents and purposes it is not a podcast.

I know most people don't think about RSS feeds at all when listening but I had to mention it here as it's the mode of distribution that makes everything I just mentioned possible, with regards to freedom of listening where I want. Not where someone else wants.

#podcast #podcasting
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Show threadPer AxbomFeb 4, 2023
Speaking of podcasts, I had missed how @pluralistic has recently written about exactly this.

"Where others were cautious, Spotify was reckless. It bought popular podcasts and podcast networks, then severely enshittified their programs by locking them inside Spotify's walled garden. Audience numbers plummeted, demoralizing podcast creators who were uninterested in the future date when Spotify and its Magic Underpants Gnomes would figure out how to wring more money out of the tiny cohort that stuck around."

Yes, even the Obamas broke off their deal with Spotify.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/27/enshittification-resistance/

#podcasting
Pluralistic: Podcasts are hearteningly enshittification resistant; Red Team Blues excerpt (27 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Show threadManuel *hunting Eudaimonia*Feb 4, 2023

@axbom

I am a Spotify premium user. I like the service but for music only (and there are a lot of things really lacking as well).

I noticed, once a podcast made the move to Spotify I won't listen to it again. Period.

The multi-track experience is so abysmal that it's no fun using Spotify for music, audiobooks and podcasts at the same time. Listen to a playlist, that's fine. Listen to a podcast/audiobook, jump to music, jump back is the horror.

@pluralistic

Show threadRoy Wiggins
@mmorschel @axbom @pluralistic same here, if a podcast doesn't show up in Pocket Casts it's dead to me, even though I pay for Spotify. The BBC also has been experimenting with making some of its podcast feeds app-exclusive
Feb 4, 2023 at 2:47pmWeb